Once again, Lileks says it better than me
This is becoming a pattern…
I’d been thinking about the last successful Presidential campaign built on gloom and doom, and drawing a blank. Heck, even Carter ran as a “breath of fresh air” candidate, and was all set to rip off a great post here on that very theme.
Then I found this:
“The Democrats have convinced most Americans that they'd have left Saddam chuckling in his palaces after 9/11, that they'd oppose any war against a sworn enemy of the United States unless Richard Clarke personally saw its president give a ticking nuke to terrorists and lead them in a stirring rendition of "New York, New York."
Worst of all, they seem to want it to be 1973 again -- as if the nation yearned to bob for horse-apples in the vat of shame.
Granted, the loss of
Read the whole thing.
Via Ed Driscoll.
posted by Kevin Creighton @ 3:28 PM
1 Comments:
Ouch, that hurt! In my mind I can visualize what this would look like on the battlefield. You are looking at a mountain ridge twenty clicks away, overhead you see the circular contrails of B-52s against a blue sky. Suddenly, there are black clouds from GPS-guided munitions smashing against that ridge. The muffled tones come seconds later and shake the ground you stand upon. Looks like the target got serviced...
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